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Ms.
Blythe was recently named Musical America's Vocalist of the Year for
2009. Her other awards include the 2007 Opera News Award and the 1999
Richard Tucker Award.
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe has firmly established herself as one
of the finest artists of her generation.
Ms. Blythe has sung in many of the renowned opera houses in the US and
Europe including the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, and the Opera National de Paris. Her many roles
include the title roles in Carmen, La Grande Duchesse, Tancredi, Mignon,
and Guilio Cesare; Frugola, Principessa, and Zita in the Il Trittico,
Fricka in both Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Azucena in Il Trovatore,
Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress,
Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Mere Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites;
Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri,, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Ino/Juno
in Semele, and Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus
This season Ms. Blythe added three new roles to her repertoire: Dalila
in Samson et Dalila (Pittsburgh Opera), the title role in Orfeo (Metropolitan
Opera), and Ježibaba in Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera). She also
returned to the Arizona Opera for The Mikado and appeared with the Collegiate
Chorale in Carnegie Hall. Upcoming engagements include the Verdi Requiem
with the San Francisco Opera, an appearance with the Washington Concert
Opera, and her return to the Seattle Opera for the complete Ring Cycle.
Next season, she makes her house debut at the San Francisco Opera as
Azucena, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Il Trittico, Covent
Garden as Baba the Turk, and the Seattle Opera as Mistress Quickly.
She also appears in Carnegie Hall with both the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concerts conducted by James Levine.
Ms. Blythe has appeared with many of the world's finest orchestras including
the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra (in Boston and
in Tanglewood), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's,
Opera Orchestra of New York, Minnesota Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Ensemble Orchestre de Paris. The
many conductors with whom she has worked include Harry Bicket, James
Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine,
Nicola Luisotti, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Nelson, Antonio Pappano,
Mstislav Rostropovitch, Robert Spano, Patrick Summers, and Michael Tilson
Thomas.
A frequent recitalist, Ms. Blythe has been presented in recital with
her collaborative partner, Warren Jones, by Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center's
Great Performers Series at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Vocal Arts Society and
at the Supreme Court at the invitation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsberg in Washington, DC; the Cleveland Art Song Festival, the
University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society, and Shriver Hall in Baltimore. She premiered Vignettes: Ellis
Island, a song cycle written especially for her by Alan Smith, and has
since performed it at the Ravinia Festival and with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center. It was also featured in a special television
program entitled "Vignettes: An Evening with Stephanie Blythe and
Warren Jones, presented by Opera News on the WNYE television series
Opera New York. Last season, she premiered and recorded another piece
by Alan Smith entitled Covered Wagon Woman, which was commissioned for
her residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This
season she performed the piece again with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center on tour throughout the U.S.
Ms. Blythe's most recent solo recordings include a collection of pieces
by Mahler, Brahms, and Wagner and an album of Handel and Bach arias
- all released on the Virgin Classics label.
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